Yes, but all my things that were (eg) &lt h1 &gt are now all automagically changed into 'times new roman', 'font size 12', etc etc etc... I think the best thing to do is to salvage the text and just start the markup again!

I wouldn't have minded if I'd been daft enough to save it (well, OK, I would, but it would have been more understandable), but all I did was _open_ it!

Ah, yes, I had to clean up a couple of these messes for my father - he did edit with Word though and then wondered why he could not see a picture in his webpage once it was online (word seems to think it's a good idea to replace relative with absolute references).

Word also does that to other kinds of documents, for example to RTFs (a big problem for us at work due to requirements to keep an audit trail of changes to files).

I use vim, but yes - never open anything in Word that you might want to use again outside Word. Same goes for that sort of package in general. Excel is reasonably respectful of CSV and other plain text files, though it does become incredulous when you want to save things in those formats ("Are you sure? You REALLY want to save it in that format? You'll lose features!").